This paper advances current debates on creative cities through a unique focus on the empirical dynamics of knowledge transfer and innovation in a creative city ecosystem. The application of a Helix Model to examine the ...

In an operating environment dominated by rapid technological change, the temptation to call this disruptive is even greater. In this paper, we draw on the disruption literature and the imagery from this, to view and ...

This paper draws on the empirical example of Underbroen, Copenhagen’s maker space and “space for exploration of urban production and a meeting place for innovators and disruptors” (http://underbroen.com). Not only is ...

In the post-millennium, and increasingly in the post-recession period, digital has become a fashionable byword for economic growth and digital economy seen as an economic panacea, exemplified to some extent by London’s ...

With the Global Financial Crisis behind us, but not sufficiently distant that risk is absent, and with the institutions of economy and society tainted, we are witnessing a huge economic reconfiguration of society. Triggered ...

The investment strategies of post-industrial cities are viewed within a critical Marxist framework. Drawing on the notion of the ‘spatial fix’ as a temporary solution to the crisis of capitalist accumulation and especially ...

In recent years innovation studies have extended key discussions beyond scientific knowledge into more symbolic and cultural forms, and with it brought cultural and creative industries to the centre stage of economic ...

The UK’s creative industries are world renowned, perhaps even globally unrivalled. Our creative products and services are consumed around the world and international economies look to the UK to emulate our creative approach. ...

I argue here for the creation of Labs as the optimal space and building block for conducting research and innovation in today’s society. Labs are conducive for cross-disciplinary research and problem solving, for knowledge ...